1. Multicultural Feminisms 9653030 田御

2. Identity Politics ► Women of Color & Lesbians ► based upon differences from white, heterosexual, mainstream society ► Their fundamental concerns are the same

3. ► In this chapter we review : Group of minority, black feminist, and gender studies: some important lesbian feminist ► Latina and Chicana, Asian American, Native American  have own cultural issues ► Feminist of color recognize the ways woman and race are both constructs in society

4. Black Feminist ► Reject the traditional Western literary canon and targets its exclusion of black women ► They say that the majority of feminist wants to be members of power structure: ► counted as men, share the bounties, equal wages, other social rights.

5. ► Black/ Lesbian feminist see heterosexual white woman  more common with men ► Maggie Humm p.232 p2 L14 ► Michael Awkward makes black feminists ’ concerns clearer — black women writers  relationship of black women writers  relationship of motherhood motherhood different from  relationships of fatherhood, with the traditional Oedipal conflicts different from  relationships of fatherhood, with the traditional Oedipal conflicts

6. More interest in black feminism ► Black feminism — problematic ► Alice Walker — replace feminist  womanist ► As in “ Everyday Use ”  female creativity was defined as early folk arts like quilting … ► Alice walker looks to her own literary mother: Zora Neale Hurtson ► Slave/ Captivity narrative — old American forms of discourse.

7. Related among woman in color ► The area of postcolonial studies ► Gayatry Chakavorty Spivak examines the effects of political independence upon subaltern or subproleterian woman in third world countries ► Clearing the difference could depend upon class and political structure